A decision structure is made up of a decision icon and one or more paths that are attached to it. When the flow reaches the decision icon, the decision icon automatically directs the flow down one of the paths, based on the settings you've selected for the icon. (For more information, see Decision structures--step-by-step procedures.)
Suppose, for example, that you're creating a training course for customer service representatives. Some of the people taking the course are current employees brushing up on department policies, some are new employees unfamiliar with the system, and some are seasonal workers who may have learned the system last year but haven't used it since then. Because the backgrounds of the people taking the course are so varied, you decide to create a pretest to determine where each user should start.
At the beginning of the course, Authorware presents each user with the pretest and then encounters a decision structure on the flowline.
The decision structure tells Authorware which path to follow based on the user's score. That's the essence of a decision structure: The path Authorware follows is neither predetermined nor decided by the user. Instead, the path is determined by Authorware according to conditions you've set when it reaches the decision structure.
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